18 Video Tapes Lyrics - Singles - Jason Meadows

One day little Billy said momma, wheres my dad? 

Fightin back the tears she said I knew one day youd ask 

She walked him down the hallway, to a closet with a safe 

Said I think youll find the answer right here, in these 18 video tapes 

See the doctors told him hed be gone before you were born 

And it broke his heart to know hed never hold you in his arms 

Determined not to let you grow up learnin from mistakes 

He put everything he thought youd need to know, on 18 video tapes 

Like heres the way you hold a bat, 

Be sure to keep that shoulder back 

And when you cast that rod and reel, 

Well use your wrist its in the field, 

Or when you learn to ride your bike 

Ill tell you now that you wont like those training wheels 

But your momma will 

That day honest momma showed him one of them a year 

Sometimes it was almost like his dad was really there 

Sometimes he laughed, sometimes he cried 

But he always walked away 

Havin learned another lesson from his dad, in those 18 video tapes 

Like when you shave dont get too close 

Lose the hair but leave the nose 

And when your momma gives you my old truck 

Dont drive too fast or ride the clutch 

Dont listen to your buddies son 

when the conversation comes to the birds and bees 

Just go to tape 18